Guest quarters could also feature art that adjusts to a person's mood, beds without mattresses and six-way charging pods for electronic gadgets
Hotel rooms without phone lines, art that changes in tune with your mood, even beds without mattresses. These are some of the predictions of technology futurists.
Take the classic landline phone: Soon to disappear, thanks to the ubiquity of mobile technology. Not only will guests rely on their personal cellphones for calls, they'll use them as electronic "keys" that offer a contactless way in the room. A simple intercom system will allow guests to contact the front desk.
Also in the tea leaves, according to experts at Asia's largest hotel and food service trade show this month, are digital door-viewers (think oversized peepholes with LCD screens), disc-less Wii gaming systems, art that adjusts to your mood, closets that generate their own "green" energy when the door is opened, and six-way charging pods for all your gadgets -- including the cellphone you'll need to communicate.
For frequent flyers such as Gregory Skinner, the latter is just fine.
"You only need to get burned once to stop using the hotel phone," said Skinner, a Toronto man who travels twice a month on business. "The only time you'd use that thing is with an 800 number, where you're paying a nominal fee for the phone but no other charges."
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